{"id":218,"date":"2007-07-22T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T14:04:36","slug":"dating-agency-poor-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/dating-agency-poor-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating agency poor copy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my way to work I saw this ad for an online dating service.<\/p>\n

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The copy for the ad seems poorly thought through: “Too late! He’s already taken” (“F\u00f6rsent! Han \u00e4r redan upptagen”). I guess that the reaction they are looking for is -Oh noes, I have to get someone while I can!<\/em>, but if you’re feeling lonely and therefore might be looking for someone to date, the slogan is more a taunt and a slap in the face; -Yes you are alone, and this guy I found online is taken as well, so you better get used to being a lonely loser, you loser<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my way to work I saw this ad for an online dating service. The copy for the ad seems poorly thought through: “Too late! He’s already taken” (“F\u00f6rsent! Han \u00e4r redan upptagen”). I guess that the reaction they are looking for is -Oh noes, I have to get someone while I can!, but if … Continue reading Dating agency poor copy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1884,1885],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-doodles","tag-found"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}